New Field Guide: Central America
10,000 Birds
OCTOBER 16, 2018
Or Bosnia and Herzegovina. Notice that had I not used the Oxford Comma there, you’d be thinking “Costa Rica and Panama” was a country like Trinidad and Tobago. Or Antigua and Barbuda.
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Birding Sarajevo or the sentimental journey home
10,000 Birds
NOVEMBER 8, 2018
Yet, Bosnia and Herzegovina was the very heartland of former Yugoslavia, with Sarajevo in its geographical centre. My friend is an ornithologist at the National Museum, Bosnia’s biggest and best-endowed museum of ancient and, especially, natural history. No, no, they do not serve beer.
Western Serbia, or Griffons in the raspberries
10,000 Birds
APRIL 26, 2018
Our destination lies further west, along the Drina River, which marks the border between Serbia and Bosnia. After the first two vulture restaurants were opened in Western Serbia in 1990s, the population recovered, they even attracted birds from the then war-torn Herzegovina to move in.
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